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The first elections to the county council were held in January 1889 and it formally came into being on 1 April 1889. On that day it held its first official meeting at the Shire Hall in Warwick, the courthouse which had served as the meeting place for the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. John Dugdale, the Conservative MP for ...
Although its earliest boundaries remain obscure, a general agreement persists that the territory that was called "the first of the Mercians" in the Tribal Hidage covered much of south Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Staffordshire and northern Warwickshire. [7]
Coat of Arms of Warwickshire. This is about the history of the County of Warwick situated in the English Midlands.Historically, bounded to the north-west by Staffordshire, by Leicestershire to the north-east, Northamptonshire to the east, Worcestershire to the west, Oxfordshire to the south, Gloucestershire to the south-west, an exclave of Derbyshire to the far north, and less than 400 yards ...
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Warwickshire in the West Midlands. All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown. The number of councillors elected for each electoral division or ward is shown in brackets.
Mercians?-911 r.~881–911: Æthelflæd Lady of the Mercians ~870–918 r. 911-918: Edward the Elder King of the Anglo-Saxons 871–924 r.899-924: Ealhhelm Ealdorman fl. 940–951: Ceolwulf II King of Mercia?-~879 r.874–~879: Ælfwynn Lady of the Mercians r.918: Æthelstan King of Mercia ~894–939 r.924: Edmund I King of the English?-939 r ...
Warwickshire County Record Office is the county record office for Warwickshire, England. Its purpose is to collect, preserve and make available archives relating to the history of the county and its people dating from the early 12th to the 21st century. It is located in the town of Warwick, and is owned and run by Warwickshire County Council.
Map of civil parishes in Warwickshire This is a list of civil parishes in the ceremonial county of Warwickshire, England. There are 219 civil parishes. Civil Parish Civil Parish Population 2011 Area (km 2) 2011 Pre 1974 District District Admington Stratford on Avon Rural District Stratford-on-Avon Alcester (town) 6,273 13.03 Alcester Rural District Stratford-on-Avon Alderminster 491 13.04 ...
As membership dwindled, funding became more difficult. As a result, in March 1932 the Society offered the museum collection to Warwickshire County Council, which was accepted. This made Warwickshire the first county council in the UK to be directly responsible for a museum service. [4]